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Editorial Reviews
Marya Schechtman in Ethics, October 2006
Following J. David Velleman's papers as they are published, it is easy to wonder how a single person could have so many good thoughts on so many topics. Read as a collection, the thirteen essays of Self to Self suggest an answer to that question. In these essays a single set of insights is applied over a range of philosophical contexts. What emerges is a gratifyingly rich picture of the self, informing all of the essays but only partially visible in each. . . Anyone who reads this collection is . . . certain to be enlightened and provoked. Above all, Self to Self provides a compelling model of the character at its core -- a human mind trying to understand itself and to offer reasons we all can share.
Sergio Tenenbaum in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10843)
Self to Self collects eleven articles David Velleman has published in the last decade, as well as two previously unpublished articles ("The Centered Self" and "A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics"), and a useful and substantive introduction. This is an outstanding group of articles: each one is truly excellent, and a number of them rank among the best recent philosophical papers on moral psychology, ethics and agency. . . . It almost goes without saying that Self to Self is required reading for anyone who has any interest in any of these topics.
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Following J. David Velleman's papers as they are published, it is easy to wonder how a single person could have so many good thoughts on so many topics. Read as a collection, the thirteen essays of Self to Self suggest an answer to that question. In these essays a single set of insights is applied over a range of philosophical contexts. What emerges is a gratifyingly rich picture of the self, informing all of the essays but only partially visible in each. . . Anyone who reads this collection is . . . certain to be enlightened and provoked. Above all, Self to Self provides a compelling model of the character at its core -- a human mind trying to understand itself and to offer reasons we all can share.
Sergio Tenenbaum in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10843)
Self to Self collects eleven articles David Velleman has published in the last decade, as well as two previously unpublished articles ("The Centered Self" and "A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics"), and a useful and substantive introduction. This is an outstanding group of articles: each one is truly excellent, and a number of them rank among the best recent philosophical papers on moral psychology, ethics and agency. . . . It almost goes without saying that Self to Self is required reading for anyone who has any interest in any of these topics.
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The tile of this book comes from John Locke, who described a person's consciousness of his past as making him "self to himself" across spans of time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reflexive guise, conative analysis, lawlike maxims, passable novel, concessive version, narrative module, normative vulnerability, dissonance hypothesis, motivational essences, notional subject, unrecorded deposits, practical trust, referential scheme, accessible perspective, quantified rules, cognitive motive, having warranted, reasons that apply, constant perspective, imagined viewer, motivational set, accessible framework, cooperative intention, narrative gravity, reflexive methods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Rat Man, Oxford University Press, New Introductory Lectures, Group Psychology, The Possibility of Practical Reason, David Velleman, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Christine Korsgaard, Harry Frankfurt, Bernard Williams, Clarendon Press, Thomas Nagel, University of Michigan, Critique of Practical Reason, Hogarth Press, Practical Reflection, Richard Wollheim, The Centered,
The tile of this book comes from John Locke, who described a person's consciousness of his past as making him "self to himself" across spans of time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reflexive guise, conative analysis, lawlike maxims, passable novel, concessive version, narrative module, normative vulnerability, dissonance hypothesis, motivational essences, notional subject, unrecorded deposits, practical trust, referential scheme, accessible perspective, quantified rules, cognitive motive, having warranted, reasons that apply, constant perspective, imagined viewer, motivational set, accessible framework, cooperative intention, narrative gravity, reflexive methods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Rat Man, Oxford University Press, New Introductory Lectures, Group Psychology, The Possibility of Practical Reason, David Velleman, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Christine Korsgaard, Harry Frankfurt, Bernard Williams, Clarendon Press, Thomas Nagel, University of Michigan, Critique of Practical Reason, Hogarth Press, Practical Reflection, Richard Wollheim, The Centered,